this is what happens when you keep liberals out of government
Moroneau: “They balanced the budget!”
Juthtin: “How do they expect to get re-elected?”
$34.4 million:Projected surplus, up $28 million over the $6 million surplus that was projected last year for the 2019-20 budget.
$1.7 billion: Approximate increase in government debt, pushing total debt to $21.7 billion by March 31, 2020.
How do you have a surplus of 34.4 million but increase the debt by 1.7 billion?
What am I misunderstanding here?
Could be future debt obligation resulting from infrastructure commitments that do not fall under the current fiscal year.
They’ve balanced the operating budget, the new debt comes from capital funding of new hospitals, highways, etc.
Smoke and mirrors Kate! If they are borrowing money for capital projects that should be part of the deficit/debt. They’ve been pulling that crap in Alberta. They seem to believe the crap that government capital spending is an investment. The Taxpayer still has to pay it all back.
If governments never invested in infrastructure they would all have $5 in assets and no roads, hospitals or schools. If you are complaining that governments too easily go into debt I would agree.
While Alberta’s Bolshevik witch has been running $11 billion deficits. It’s sad how our communists and Quebec’s corrupt Liberals have ruined my province.
The new conservative government in New Brunswick has also posted a surplus budget. They are obviously Nazis that Notley has warned us about.
I wonder why Ms. Notley and Mr. Ceci didn’t release a goody-filled budget before calling the election here in Alberta.
I don’t think they want to advertise how large the deficit is in Alberta now.
Notley deceived Albertans by not mentioning a carbon tax last election, and also when she said “no sales tax”. The carbon tax is a sales tax.
Why no budget? The NDP want to hide their upcoming increase in the carbon tax.
Rachel originally said the carbon tax would fund CO2 reduction and not go into general revenue. Now the increase will go into general revenue. Oops she lied.
Rachel later said she would suspend the carbon tax increases until Turdeau did something (sorry I forgot what). I predict the $40/tonne rate will not be delayed. It will be included in Notley’s next budget. Hopefully that will be when she runs for mayor of Edmonton.
“Notley deceived Albertans”
Any Albertan who was foolish enough to be “deceived” is more of the problem than the NDP.
They are a threat to freedom everywhere.
Suspending the carbon tax was just a photo op. If you read/listened to it, she said quite plainly that the “withholding” wouldn’t start basically until after both provincial and federal elections had occurred. An empty threat for public consumption.
Congratulations Saskatchewan.
Red Rachael cant run on her record…..
She has to slag Jason Kenney. That’s all she’s got. It’s pathetic and Albertans are already tired of it…..2 days into the campaign. Ha
If you want out of yearly increases in the debt, the only way is a new country. A country that can get pipelines built. A country that can ship grain in a timely manner.
A new country (assuming Alta, Sask, maybe Manitoba) could not build pipelines anywhere except the USA, could not ship agricultural products anywhere except the USA (and out of Churchill for 10 ice-free weeks each year if the Indegenous people in northern Manitoba let it). Being mostly land-locked, this new country of “Buffalo” would suffer the same problems as now: it would be forced to accept whatever price the Americans are willing to pay it. This new country could easily destroy the Port of Vancouver and cause a fuel-based multi-year recession in the BC Lower Mainland, but that’s about it.
I have heard that international law prevents coastal countries from blocking landlocked countries from accessing ocean shipping routes. So “Buffalo” would have more rights as a new country than Alberta/Sask have within Canada.
Yeah right.
Trudeau in 2015: “I am looking straight at Canadians and being honest the way I always have. We said we are committed to balanced budgets, and we are. We will balance that budget in 2019” #cdnpoli #Budget2019
The left right march forward, one side increases taxes and the other side keeps that level until the next increase
…the definition of insanity…
Deuteronomy 28
A farmer walks into the bank to borrow money to buy a new seed drill. The banker refuses to lend him another cent, simply because the farmer owes more than he’s worth. ”Governments run deficits all time” replied the farmer. ”That they do” says the banker, ”but they can raise taxes to generate income. You can’t raise the price of wheat.” The farmer is distraught. As the gets up to leave the office, the banker says, ”Tell you what. Just to show you that I’m a straight shooter, I’ll make you a deal. I’m a war vet, I lost an eye in Afghanistan. I had the best surgeon in Canada fit me with an artificial eye. If on the first guess you can guess which is the fake eye, you get the money for your drill.”
”Why that’s easy” says the farmer. ”Your left eye is the fake eye.”
”How did you guess so quickly?” asks the banker.
”It’s the eye that shows a tad of compassion.” replied the farmer. And he got his loan .
More money for mental health!! Thank god. We need it!!
this is what happens when you keep liberals out of government
Moroneau: “They balanced the budget!”
Juthtin: “How do they expect to get re-elected?”
$34.4 million:Projected surplus, up $28 million over the $6 million surplus that was projected last year for the 2019-20 budget.
$1.7 billion: Approximate increase in government debt, pushing total debt to $21.7 billion by March 31, 2020.
How do you have a surplus of 34.4 million but increase the debt by 1.7 billion?
What am I misunderstanding here?
Could be future debt obligation resulting from infrastructure commitments that do not fall under the current fiscal year.
They’ve balanced the operating budget, the new debt comes from capital funding of new hospitals, highways, etc.
Smoke and mirrors Kate! If they are borrowing money for capital projects that should be part of the deficit/debt. They’ve been pulling that crap in Alberta. They seem to believe the crap that government capital spending is an investment. The Taxpayer still has to pay it all back.
If governments never invested in infrastructure they would all have $5 in assets and no roads, hospitals or schools. If you are complaining that governments too easily go into debt I would agree.
While Alberta’s Bolshevik witch has been running $11 billion deficits. It’s sad how our communists and Quebec’s corrupt Liberals have ruined my province.
The new conservative government in New Brunswick has also posted a surplus budget. They are obviously Nazis that Notley has warned us about.
I wonder why Ms. Notley and Mr. Ceci didn’t release a goody-filled budget before calling the election here in Alberta.
I don’t think they want to advertise how large the deficit is in Alberta now.
Notley deceived Albertans by not mentioning a carbon tax last election, and also when she said “no sales tax”. The carbon tax is a sales tax.
Why no budget? The NDP want to hide their upcoming increase in the carbon tax.
Rachel originally said the carbon tax would fund CO2 reduction and not go into general revenue. Now the increase will go into general revenue. Oops she lied.
Rachel later said she would suspend the carbon tax increases until Turdeau did something (sorry I forgot what). I predict the $40/tonne rate will not be delayed. It will be included in Notley’s next budget. Hopefully that will be when she runs for mayor of Edmonton.
“Notley deceived Albertans”
Any Albertan who was foolish enough to be “deceived” is more of the problem than the NDP.
They are a threat to freedom everywhere.
Suspending the carbon tax was just a photo op. If you read/listened to it, she said quite plainly that the “withholding” wouldn’t start basically until after both provincial and federal elections had occurred. An empty threat for public consumption.
Congratulations Saskatchewan.
Red Rachael cant run on her record…..
She has to slag Jason Kenney. That’s all she’s got. It’s pathetic and Albertans are already tired of it…..2 days into the campaign. Ha
If you want out of yearly increases in the debt, the only way is a new country. A country that can get pipelines built. A country that can ship grain in a timely manner.
A new country (assuming Alta, Sask, maybe Manitoba) could not build pipelines anywhere except the USA, could not ship agricultural products anywhere except the USA (and out of Churchill for 10 ice-free weeks each year if the Indegenous people in northern Manitoba let it). Being mostly land-locked, this new country of “Buffalo” would suffer the same problems as now: it would be forced to accept whatever price the Americans are willing to pay it. This new country could easily destroy the Port of Vancouver and cause a fuel-based multi-year recession in the BC Lower Mainland, but that’s about it.
I have heard that international law prevents coastal countries from blocking landlocked countries from accessing ocean shipping routes. So “Buffalo” would have more rights as a new country than Alberta/Sask have within Canada.
Yeah right.
Trudeau in 2015: “I am looking straight at Canadians and being honest the way I always have. We said we are committed to balanced budgets, and we are. We will balance that budget in 2019” #cdnpoli #Budget2019
Watch the video here
https://mobile.twitter.com/taxpayerDOTcom/status/1108087465125072908
The left right march forward, one side increases taxes and the other side keeps that level until the next increase
…the definition of insanity…
Deuteronomy 28
A farmer walks into the bank to borrow money to buy a new seed drill. The banker refuses to lend him another cent, simply because the farmer owes more than he’s worth. ”Governments run deficits all time” replied the farmer. ”That they do” says the banker, ”but they can raise taxes to generate income. You can’t raise the price of wheat.” The farmer is distraught. As the gets up to leave the office, the banker says, ”Tell you what. Just to show you that I’m a straight shooter, I’ll make you a deal. I’m a war vet, I lost an eye in Afghanistan. I had the best surgeon in Canada fit me with an artificial eye. If on the first guess you can guess which is the fake eye, you get the money for your drill.”
”Why that’s easy” says the farmer. ”Your left eye is the fake eye.”
”How did you guess so quickly?” asks the banker.
”It’s the eye that shows a tad of compassion.” replied the farmer. And he got his loan .
More money for mental health!! Thank god. We need it!!